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A. J. TOWER.

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No. 310,922. Patented Jan. 20, 1885.

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SPECIPICATIONfo rming part of Letters Patent No. 310,922, dated January 20, 1885.

Application filed January 12. 188i).

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ABNER J. TOWER, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Coats, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in mens coats for use in horseback-riding, and

it is particularly adapted to oiled or other water-proof coats, such as are in use by persons in certain sections who spend much of their time in the saddle.

The object of the invention is to provide means for preventing the coats from flowing back in the Wind, and thereby exposing the wearer to the Weather while on horseback. Heretofore this has been accomplished by inside straps or equivalent means for encircling independently the legs of the wearer to hold the skirts of the coat about them but I conceive the best protection to be afforded by inclosing the lower extremities from, say, the knees or above down; and hence in my inven- IiOn I slit the lining, so as to permit the insertion of the lower extremities into the coat between its lining and outer portion, and pro vide straps or their equivalent to receive the wearers feet, all as hereinafter particularly set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating my invention, in the two figures of which like parts are similarly designated, Figure 1 is a front elevation of a coat with one half thrown open or back, and Fig.2 is a section on linear 00, Fig. 1, on a larger scale.

(it represents the outside or outer fabric, and Z; the lining, of the garment. In the lining, at about the points where the knees would naturally come when the wearer was in the saddle, are made slits or openings 0, one for each extremity, and preferably, although not necessarily, parallel with the bottom edge of the coat, and bound or otherwise re-enforced or made strong, so that their edges cannot easily be torn.

In operation or use the wearer inserts his feet into the coat between its face and lining through these slits, so that thelower portions of his limbs are wholly inclosed and protected from the weather, while'the skirts of the coat are thus held from flying back with the wind..

' the ball or instep.

A variation of the invention, and one which is perfectly practicable, is to sew up the bottom of the coat at b. omit the straps d, and allow the foot to remain inside the lining, which is so flexible that it does not interfere with the placing of the foot in the stirrup.

\Vhile this invention is designed primarily for application to an oiled coat, it may be used in connection with any coat, as desired. The coat as improved does not interfere with the limbs when walking, it being usually made quitethin.

Having thus fully described my improvement, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The herein-described coat, comprising an outside or face cloth and a lining, the latter provided with transverse slits to admit the wearers legs between the lining and cloth to inclose them, the lining being connected at the bottom with the face-cloth to afford supports for the feet to hold the garment down, as set forth.

2. In a coat, the combination of the outer portion. a, lining b, provided with the slits or openings 0, and the straps cl, arranged substantially as and for the purpose specified.

ABNER J. TOWER.

. Vitnesses:

HENRY W. WILLIAMS, ,Gnoaen V. MALLoN. 

